Key Employee Identifier. Employees Critical to Organisation.

Description

Key Employee Identifier marks employees who are critical to the organisation as a whole or a particular department, division or project. Some organisations only mark certain Executives as Key Employees, while others use the key employee concept to identify influential and knowledgeable employees throughout the organisation.

Business Case

Identifying key employees in your organisation enables effective succession and retirement planning by focusing the HR professional’s time on finding and grooming successors for employees who are critical to the enterprise. Identifying key employees at the departmental level not only helps line managers prepare contingency plans for employees that are critical to the success of their departments and but can also facilitate cross-training efforts and foster a culture of knowledge sharing.

Required Data

Key Employee Field

Samples

Implementation Considerations

There are many considerations that can be taken into account when defining the key employee identifier calculation. In fact, multiple key employee identifier metrics may be desirable.  Some metrics are listed below.  Your HumanConcepts Professional Services Consultant can work with you to define calculations that take into account the available data and your business needs.

Reason Code

Example: Aerodynamics Expert, Patent Holder for a critical assembly.
Most organisations capture and report the reason why an employee has been marked as a “Key Employee.”  This information is usually not captured for Executives, but is almost always captured for critical employees at the individual contributor and line manager level. Capturing and reporting a reason (usually a skill-set) makes it easier for managers to identify potential successors for this position and provides aggregate information to HR as to which skillsets are considered critical or under-represented among current employees.